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WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40
WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40

WW2 Casualty Medal Group of Three with Original Documents – Stoker Petty Officer T.A. Smith, Royal Navy, HMS Sphinx – K.I.A. 4/2/40

Original price was: £245.00.Current price is: £220.50.

Regiment: Royal Navy
Era: WW2

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Description

A second world war naval casualty medal group awarded to C/KX.75331 Stoker Petty Officer Thomas Andrew Smith, Royal Navy, who was sadly killed in action on the minesweeper H.M.S. Sphinx 4/2/1940 when the ship was badly damaged by air attack 15 miles off Kinnaird Head, Moray Firth. He is remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial. 

1939-45 Star unnamed as issued
Atlantic Star unnamed as issued
War Medal 1939-45 unnamed as issued 

Comes with original box of issue addressed to ‘Mrs. I. Smith, 118 Ardan Street, Gillingham, Kent’ and Admiralty condolence slip.

Also included are two related football prize medals.

Killed in Action – 4th February 1940 

Thomas Andrew Smith was killed in action in the minesweeper H.M.S. Sphinx on 4th February 1940, on which date his ship was badly damaged by air attack 15 miles north of Kinnaird Head, Moray Firth – the ship foundered with the loss of 40 lives on the following day. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. 

Smith, who was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire in February 1905, originally entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in December 1925, was advanced to Stoker Petty Officer in June 1939, and joined the Sphinx in July 1939.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s Certificate of Service and official illuminated Memorial Scroll, together with a group photograph of Pembroke personnel and portrait photograph.

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